Alison Leland Co-Director, Bonner Leaders Program

Alison Leland is the Director of the Bonner Leaders Program at the University of Houston and an Instructor of Political Science in the Honors College. A graduate of Spelman College and the Georgetown University Law Center, she spent 15 years in investment banking prior to joining the University in 2004. In addition to the Hobby Center for Public Policy, she is a board member of the Houston Public Library Foundation; the Texas Defenders Service, which provides representation to death row inmates; the MD Anderson Center for Research on Minority Health; and the Mickey Leland Kibbutzim Internship Foundation.